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Compared with the KBO register · free

Is your company name already in the register? Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company in the KBO register already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector. Trademarks and domain names are checked separately.

“DANPE”

An active company already has this name

The name is not unique in the register. In another sector the risk of confusion is smaller, but customers and search engines do not always make that distinction.

Also pick your activity to see whether a similar name exists in your own sector.

What this check does and does not say

  • We compare against every name in the KBO register today: the name, the abbreviation and the trade names of enterprises and their establishments. Capitals, accents, punctuation and legal forms (bv, nv, srl, ...) do not count.
  • This is not a trademark search and not legal advice on using the name. A name that is not in the register can still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the official registers of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP, boip.int) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, euipo.europa.eu).
  • A domain name or a social media handle is also separate from the register.

Same or very similar names

3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • DANPE same name
    Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Duffel · since 2007
  • DANTE very similar
    Full-service restaurants · Genk · since 1989
  • Retail sale of cosmetics and toilet articles · since 2004
Names that resemble it 16 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • since 2013
  • since 2019
  • DANPAT similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 1991
  • DANPHI similar
    Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Brasschaat · since 2018
  • Other software publishing · since 2023
  • DAN similar
    Liège · since 1990
  • DAN similar
    Knokke-Heist · since 1990
  • Landscape service activities · since 2015
  • D.A.N. similar
    Abbreviation of Diestse Autorijschool Nico · Driving schools for cars and motorcycles · Diest · since 2019
  • Vervaardiging van radiatoren, stoomketels en ketels voor centrale verwarming · since 1987
  • DAN similar
    Name of an establishment of DELIVERY ALL NETWORKS · Freight transport by road · Braine-l'Alleud · since 2021
  • D.A.N. similar
    Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Zandhoven · since 2010
  • DAN similar
    Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen · Chaudfontaine · since 2007
  • Detailhandel in glas-, porselein- en aardewerk en in niet-elektrische huishoudelijke artikelen · since 2026
  • DANPHIL similar
    Abbreviation of DANPHIL CONSTRUCTION · General construction of residential buildings · Eupen · since 2018
  • DAN (sole trader) similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    General construction of residential buildings · since 2023

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